BY GEORGE, HE'S ANGRY

Wanna tick George Clooney off? Say something bad about Solaris, his recent sci-fi romance that flopped at the box office. At a press conference over the weekend at the Berlin Film Festival, a journalist called Solaris "boring" to Clooney's face. The actor's response? "I find you fascinating," he scowled. "You crack me up, man. You just wanted to get up and be a rat, you know that? You just wanted to get up and say something rotten. What a jerk! I mean honestly, you know, what a [expletive] thing to say!" I guess this would be a bad time to tell him that he made a lousy Batman.